[olug] Followup items re: ipv6 anycast

Brian Roberson brian at bstc.net
Thu Apr 7 03:35:49 UTC 2011


Here is a really good burb on what we were talking about in respect to
anycast and the (BASIC) loadbalancing in ipv6:

http://content.ruud.org/bgphints/articles/anycast.html

As we discussed, the issue with this, is that there is inherintly no
application layer testing built into the functionality, and it shouldnt be
used to replace any inteligent load balancing for statefull applications.

Interestingly enough, serveral of the root dns servers use anycast, and here
is a great article specific to the the F root server ran by ISC:

http://www.isc.org/community/f-root

What is really cool, is the map at the bottom of that page showing all the
locations the F-root server(s) are.



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